Ciudad-Real Publishes Article Based on CSRC Thriving Youth Survey Data

Victoria Ciudad-Real, PhD candidate in sociology at UC Irvine, published the article "Translating Welfare: Language Brokering and Public Benefit Navigational Capital" in the Journal of Ethnic and Migrational Studies, March 1-25, 2026. Ciudad-Real's study draws on data from the 2023 Oxnard Thriving Youth Survey led by the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center and which targeted young adult Oxnard residents aged 18–34, as well as Oxnard College students and CSU Channel Islands students from Oxnard.